Gabriel Latner
Gabriel Latner
@glatner.bsky.social
Woodturner, occasional lawyer.
A question for Second Amendment scholars:

Are lawndarts "arms"?

Alternatively, does the CPSC have authority to ban hollow points?
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December 22, 2024 at 2:18 AM
$5 says we can get a Conservative MP to unironically adopt "None is too many" as their official slogan on immigration.
November 24, 2024 at 5:33 AM
It has been ~20 years since same sex marriage was legalized in Canada, and~10 years in the US.

As far as I know, no one has married a turtle, and the "institution" of marriage is thriving. Divorce rates have fallen.

Like integration, none of the predicted evils followed. A trend?
December 25, 2023 at 4:05 PM
I don't remember much about Law & Economics, but I remember the Coase Theorem: Absent transaction costs, the person who can make the most money with a property will end up owning it.

There is of course the Scrooge Corollary: if you're rich enough, a water tower full of money makes perfect sense.
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December 15, 2023 at 3:06 AM